@csprofkgd.bsky.social
#CS Associate Prof York University, #ComputerVision Researcher, VectorInst Faculty Affiliate, TPAMI AE, ELLIS4Europe Member
📍Toronto 🇨🇦 🔗 csprofkgd.github.io
🗓️ Joined Nov 2024
@csprofkgd.bsky.socialA prediction market for peer review. Have we reached peak AI? 🤔
@csprofkgd.bsky.socialFood shopping in Canada. These 🆕 prominent front-of-package nutrition labels really do make you think twice about what you’re buying.
@markriedl.bsky.socialReposted by @csprofkgd.bsky.socialMichael I. Jordan doesn't pull any punches, even when it comes to Hinton.
@csprofkgd.bsky.socialIt crossed my mind 😉
@csprofkgd.bsky.socialCan I have your attention, please? 👀
@csprofkgd.bsky.socialA glimpse into #computervision history.
The inaugural #ECCV1990 was held over 4 days in Antibes, France.
• ~40 attendees
• 63 accepted papers
• 60 oral presentations
• 20 posters
• 13 sessions
Fast forward 36 years. How times have changed!
@chriswolfvision.bsky.socialReposted by @csprofkgd.bsky.socialHaving fun with Blender ...
Distilling context transformers into recurrent transformers:
arxiv.org/abs/2606.21562
@csprofkgd.bsky.socialModelled after the Mila program, Vector has launched a grad app portal. I’m a participating faculty member and am looking for PhD students to join my group starting Fall 2027. Check it out!
@ellis.euReposted by @csprofkgd.bsky.socialRegister now for the #ELLISUnConference in Paris 🇫🇷 on 8 December at https://ellis-unconference.github.io/!
With sessions on foundation & world models, AI agents, multimodal & graph learning, probabilistic & causal ML, AI for health & climate, sustainability, open-source ML...
See you in Paris!
@csprofkgd.bsky.socialIt’s one perspective and meant to be a living document. Add yours via Margin Notes!
csprofkgd.github.io/emailing-pro...
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@csprofkgd.bsky.socialt’s that time of year again: graduate admissions season. Inspired by @phillipisola.bsky.social post on doing a PhD in the age of AI (highly recommended!), I share some thoughts on how to email a professor about joining their lab. 1/2
@phillipisola.bsky.socialReposted by @csprofkgd.bsky.socialStudents sometimes ask me if it still makes sense, in this accelerating age, to pursue a PhD in AI.
Perhaps counterintuitively, I think it's a great time to do so.
I wrote up some thoughts on this here: web.mit.edu/phillipi/www...
@csprofkgd.bsky.socialCSI YorkU: The Case of the Corrupted Pixels
@csprofkgd.bsky.social#KostasThoughts: Seeing your former trainees succeed in life after the lab is incredibly rewarding.
@csprofkgd.bsky.socialSeems like the Bsky video encoder mangles the video on phones a bit 😒 Best viewed on desktop.
@csprofkgd.bsky.socialMerci! 😊
@abursuc.bsky.socialReposted by @csprofkgd.bsky.socialKids and dad sprinting side by side in their own way. Let’s go ICLR!
@csprofkgd.bsky.socialMerci!
@csprofkgd.bsky.socialTough crowd 😅
@csprofkgd.bsky.socialAs requested 🤓
